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Biden's closest aides made millions before entering the WH via Big Business and Wall Street

Kirill Kurevlev
Sputnik
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:29 UTC

According to the report, the US Senate has not confirmed any of these positions to date. At the same time, many of the mentioned advisors have worked in Biden's presidential campaign or are former officials of the Obama administration.

Closest advisors to the US President Joe Biden have deep ties to Big Business and Wall Street, with some earning millions of dollars in their careers prior to joining the White House, CNBC reported Saturday.

Citing new financial disclosures provided to the outlet by the White House, CNBC states that chief of staff Ron Klain, deputy chief of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon, senior advisor Mike Donilon, White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeffrey Zients, and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese are among the senior Biden aides included in the disclosures.

According to the report, before becoming the head of the National Economic Council, Deese was the Global Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock. Deese reportedly made over $2.3 million in pay and bonuses while at the investment company. Moreover, Deese also could have made an extra $2.4 million via BlackRock's restricted stock plan, according to the document.

Before entering the White House, Klain worked as an executive at the venture capital company Revolution, and his salary was reported as $1.8 million, and he began working for the company in 2005.

Comment: Biden requires White House associates that can run interference, should he come under financial and legal scrutiny.

Biden administration plans 'reset' with Palestinians

Deborah Brand
Breitbart
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

The Biden administration is planning a "reset" with the Palestinians after the relationship crumbled under former President Donald Trump, according to an internal State Department memo.

The memo, titled "The US Palestinian Reset and the Path Forward," is still in an early "working stage" draft, according to the United Arab Emirates-based newspaper The National.

The memo, which was given to Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier this month, would form the basis for rolling back parts of Trump's policies, two sources familiar with the matter said.

Drafted by Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr, the plan includes a $15 million aid package in COVID-related humanitarian aid for the Palestinians and supports a return to the two-state solution.

The memo reads:

"As we reset US relations with the Palestinians, the Palestinian body politic is at an inflection point as it moves towards its first elections in 15 years. At the same time, we [the US] suffer from a lack of connective tissue following the 2018 closure of the PLO office in Washington and refusal of Palestinian Authority leadership to directly engage with our embassy to Israel."

The memo says the U.S. vision hopes

"to advance freedom, security, and prosperity for both Israelis and Palestinians in the immediate term which is important in its own right, but also as means to advance the prospects of a negotiated two-state solution."

The Biden Administration's approach will return to past formulas, with the two-state solution "based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps and agreements on security and refugees," the memo said.

Comment: Unless the US is going to put muscle into this remake, Palestine is looking at rapidly diminishing returns as Israel continues to grow stronger and bolder.

Intersectional imperialism: A wholesome menace

Alex Rubinstein
RT
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:10 UTC

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The empire claps back. With Trump-style nationalism out the door, a new era of imperial ideology is upon us.

This mutation of the empire's dominant dogma is manifesting throughout global institutions of economic, political and social control and is materializing in a myriad of conflict theatres.

In order to identify where woke imperialism exists, we have to define it first. So what is it? It's certainly not the first iteration of hegemonic domination buttressed by moralism.

The doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was officialized by the United Nations in 2005, but its roots really trace back to the NATO bombing campaign of Yugoslavia. During the Obama years, the term "humanitarian intervention" caught on as the main moniker for such actions.

Taliban expects US withdrawal as per agreement, vows to restore Islamic rule

Vladimir Isachenkov
Stars and Stripes
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:00 UTC

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Members of the Taliban delegation (from the left): Khairullah Khairkhwa, Suhail Shaheen and Mohammad mattend a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 19, 2021. The Taliban warned Washington against defying a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan.

The Taliban warned Washington on Friday against defying a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan, promising a "reaction," which could mean increased attacks by the insurgent group.

The Taliban issued their warning at a press conference in Moscow, the day after meeting with senior Afghan government negotiators and international observers to try to jumpstart a stalled peace process to end Afghanistan's decades of war.

President Joe Biden's administration says it is reviewing an agreement the Taliban signed with the Trump administration. Biden told ABC in an interview Wednesday that the May 1 deadline "could happen, but it is tough," adding that if the deadline is extended it won't be by "a lot longer."

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NY Supreme Court hands Project Veritas a major legal victory against New York Times

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 21:52 UTC

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The New York Supreme Court has ruled against The New York Times, finding that they used "actual malice" and acted with "reckless disregard" in several articles attacking Project Veritas.

The articles which were the subject matter of the legal action were written for the Times by Maggie Astor and Tiffany Hsu, and the ruling legally classifies them as editorial content, although they were being billed by the Times as news.

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Engdahl: The Great Reset is here - follow the money

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:00 UTC

The top-down reorganization of the world economy by a cabal of technocratic corporativists, led by the group around the Davos World Economic Forum - the so-called Great Reset or UN Agenda 2030 - is no future proposal. It is well into actualization as the world remains in insane lockdown for a virus. The hottest investment area since onset of the coronavirus global lockdowns is something called ESG investing. This highly subjective and very controlled game is dramatically shifting global capital flows into a select group of "approved" corporate stocks and bonds. Notably it advances the dystopian UN Agenda 2030 or the WEF Great Reset agenda. The development is one of the most dangerous and least understood shifts in at least the past century.

The UN "sustainable economy" agenda is being realized quietly by the very same global banks which have created the financial crises in 2008. This time they are preparing the Klaus Schwab WEF Great Reset by steering hundreds of billions and soon trillions in investment to their hand-picked "woke" companies, and away from the "not woke" such as oil and gas companies or coal.

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Stripping Catalan MEPs of immunity from prosecution 'undermines EU's moral authority' - region's ex-leader

RT
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:46 UTC

The European Parliament's decision to pave the way for the extradition of Catalan pro-independence politicians to Spain is a threat to European democracy, Catalonia's former leader, Carles Puigdemont, told RT.

Puigdemont fled Spain in 2017, after Madrid charged him with rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds for organizing the Catalan independence vote that year while serving as the head of the region's government.

In January 2020, a Belgian court refused to extradite the politician to Spain, citing his immunity from prosecution as a member of the European Parliament. However, the EU's top legislative body voted this month to strip him and two other pro-independence MEPs from Catalonia of parliamentary immunity, paving the way for their possible extradition.

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And check out SOTT radio's show from 2017 on the matter of Catalonia's independence, and the rise of independence movements around the world: Behind the Headlines: Kurdistan and Catalonia: The Politics of Self-Determination

Biden and Blinken's unprovoked attacks on Russia and China backfire - if you live in a glass house, don't throw stones

Scott Ritter
RT
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:31 UTC

In attacking the moral character of Russia's president and China's human rights record, the Biden administration opened the door for a critical examination of America's own troubled history.

President Joe Biden has defined his administration with the mantra of "America is back," hinting at a return to what he and his supporters believe to be the halcyon days of President Barack Obama's two-term tenure as president, as well as a sharp departure from the policies and practices of the man who usurped Hillary Clinton's bite at the presidential apple, Donald Trump.

In an effort to "build back better," as Biden is wont to exclaim, his administration has embraced an ambitious agenda that aggressively seeks to both promote and install America as the world's indispensable nation. And yet, in the span of less than 24 hours, the president and his primary foreign policy advisor, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, managed to undermine the very policies they sought to promote through a combination of narcissistic posturing and plain diplomatic incompetence.

By labeling Russian President Vladimir Putin a "soulless killer," Biden put US-Russian relations in their worst posture since the Cold War. And Blinken, during the Biden administration's initial meeting between the US and China, managed to unleash the ire and rage of Beijing by forgoing any pretense at diplomatic norms and aggressively calling out China on a host of issues which touched upon its sovereignty.

Comment: Biden's administration delivered a sham performance on the global stage, the fallout yet to come.

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US and China publicly rebuke each other in first major talks of Biden era

Interview: Brazil's Lula da Silva will be 'a major political force' next year, claims journalist Brian Mier

Mohamed Elmaazi
Sputnik
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:50 UTC

Brazil's Supreme Court has sidestepped addressing evidence of corruption between the judge and chief prosecutor in Lula da Silva's trial, ultimately invalidating the former president's conviction on the basis that it was illegally transferred to a state which had no jurisdiction to hear the case, Brian Mier tells Sputnik.

Brian Mier, co-editor of Brasil Wire based in São Paulo, described to Sputnik the significance of the recent Brazilian Supreme Court decision to invalidate the conviction of former President Lula da Silva. Mier detailed the origins of the prosecution against Lula, which lie in the now infamous joint US-Brazilian "anti-corruption" investigation Operação Lava Jato (aka Operation Car Wash). Lava Jato, Mier explains, was revealed to be tainted from the beginning by political bias and improper conduct by both the judge and chief prosecutor in the case, following the leaks of private Telegram messages between the two.

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From soft liberalism to iron-fisted leftism in today's US Military

Aaron Reitz
Newsweek
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:00 UTC

In the Marine Corps, we don't have quotas, but we do have goals. And Marines accomplish goals," my officer-in-charge told me and a few other brand-new second lieutenants, each of us assigned to temporary recruiting duty while awaiting orders to Quantico. The captain then told us we had to sign up a certain number of college-enrolled racial minorities and females. No need to be too strict on physical fitness or academics, he said. Just bring them in.

That was in 2009.

Discrimination of this sort has been an ingrained yet lamentable part of the military's recruitment, retention and promotion practices for many years. But my fellow officers and I couldn't have imagined that, 12 years later, our disagreement with these policies would get us labeled "racist," "sexist," "bigoted" or "extremists" worthy of "eradication" and "elimination" from the USMC. Yet the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps said as much in his February 22 "core values" memo.

I'm now a major in the Marine Corps Reserve and a member of a formerly all-male infantry battalion.* This past weekend we had our monthly drill period. A few days before drill, the command told us that all scheduled training on Sunday morning was canceled and replaced with a "stand-down to address extremism in the ranks."

It was left-wing political programming, as direct as it sounds.

Comment: Not only are all military 'identities' coming under scrutiny and redefinition, so are our perceptions of those who would fight for us and defend our country - given the new guidelines of confusion, uncertainty, and paranoia.

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Puppet Masters

Biden's closest aides made millions before entering the WH via Big Business and Wall Street

Biden administration plans 'reset' with Palestinians

Intersectional imperialism: A wholesome menace

Taliban expects US withdrawal as per agreement, vows to restore Islamic rule

NY Supreme Court hands Project Veritas a major legal victory against New York Times

Engdahl: The Great Reset is here - follow the money

Stripping Catalan MEPs of immunity from prosecution 'undermines EU's moral authority' - region's ex-leader

Biden and Blinken's unprovoked attacks on Russia and China backfire - if you live in a glass house, don't throw stones

Interview: Brazil's Lula da Silva will be 'a major political force' next year, claims journalist Brian Mier

From soft liberalism to iron-fisted leftism in today's US Military

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